World Bank

Milan 2017

The World Bank considers nutrition investments as a key to human capital development and poverty reduction. Over the next two years (from mid-2017 to mid-2019), at least $1.7 billion in nutrition financing has already been identified for delivery across 30 countries in the IDA18 pipeline. This is a significantly increased commitment and represents strong ownership of this critical agenda by both the World Bank and national governments, since IDA is demand-driven by national governments.

Reported progress

The available data shows that the total nutrition-specific financing for the 2-year period (mid-2017 to mid-2019) was approximately US$2 billion.

London 2013

The Bank Group projects that it will nearly triple direct financing for maternal and early childhood nutrition programs in developing countries in 2013-14 to USD $600 million, up from USD $230 million in 2011-12.

Reported progress

FY2017 (mid-2016 to mid-2017)

Nutrition-specific financing: US$765 million

Total nutrition financing: US$1,000 million

FY2018 (mid-2017 to mid-2018)

Nutrition-specific financing: US$1,180 million

Total nutrition financing: US$1,430 million

Under IDA 17, which covered three years (mid-2014 to June 2017), the World Bank Group committed US$1.9 billion in IDA/IBRD resources for nutrition in total. The available data on the nutrition-specific commitment for the latest 2-year period (mid-2017 to mid-2019) shows the total amount of US$2 billion, which is double the 2013-2014 amount of US$1 billion (which had already surpassed the 2013 London commitment of US$600 million).

London 2013

Increase by more than 50% its technical and analytical support to countries with the greatest prevalence of stunting or underweight children. Add stunting as a new indicator on the World Bank Group’s (WBG’s) Corporate Scorecard.

Reported progress

In addition to the growth of the International Development Association (IDA) and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) portfolio for nutrition, key trust fund resources have also been critical to moving the nutrition agenda forward. The US$20m Trust Fund from the Government of Japan was critical to increasing our analytical work to support IDA scale-up for nutrition and surpassing our 2013 commitment, as are the US$155m of innovative financing resources from the Power of Nutrition (across IDA 17 and 18 cycles) co-invested with the IDA portfolio. The US$67 million of nutrition-focused resources invested by the Global Financing Facility (GFF) Trust Fund were also a key component of this effort.

Child stunting is also included as a Tier-1 indicator for the World Bank Corporate Score card.